As I play a bit more, Layla's growing on me.
Agree with some of the comments up-thread; the (English) dialogue is kind of rough (for just one example, who uses the word "penis" in the heat of passion?).
But I'm thinking that this story, and the sandbox format, aren't a very good match. It's most obvious to me, at least right now, in Liz's and Layla's stories--they're clearly working on largely the same issue (just about everyone else we've spent much time with is also nibbling at it in some way, but those two most directly). Yes, they're coming at it very differently, but there's a huge amount of overlap between their respective interests, and MC knows a lot from working with Liz that would be relevant to Layla, and vice versa. But since their routes progress more or less independently, it makes MC look dumber than a sack of hammers for not connecting any of these things (because the game doesn't "know" during a Layla event what's happened with Liz).